PSM3 Fallout 3 review, not impressed with PS3 version

[CodeZombie]

The PS3 can process data faster than the 360, but its tricky as the PPU of the CELL is at its heart a dual core PowerPC running at the same speed as the 360 (compared to the six core PowerPC CPU on the 360), its the 6 available SPUs which gives the CELL its eye watering speed.

You've got that backwards and I'm pretty sure that the PS3 has 8 cores, not 6.

I was refering to the 6 available SPU vector processors inside the CELL.

Physically the CELL is made up of
2 Hardware Threads on the PPU
8 SPUs

However, only 6 SPUs are usually directly available to the developer.
SPU 8 is turned off in the factory, as its only there to allow for manufactoring fault tollerances.
SPU 7 is active, but reservered by the PS3 operating system
Leaving SPUs 1-6 available for processing.

Heck even in a low level Tool such an SN-Tuner I'm only allowed to view the processing activity on SPUs 1-6.

Nope. The new interface screenshots in the PC magazines looked exactly the same as in the console ones, aside from the mouse cursor.

You've got to be shitting me.Bethesda.

Take a deep breath, and get used to it. Very few development houses want to design interfaces for each platform, and game design ethics are moving towards treating the interface as seperate from the platform.

This is not just Bethesda, look at what all the major developers are doing when approaching multi-platform games.

 

[Kilus]

The reason why the Xbox 360 is the lead platform is that it's a software behemoth in North America.

 

[Pope Viper]

The PS3 is the same over in Japan, isn't it? Or has the X-Box started making inroads there?

 

[TheGM]

The PS3 is the same over in Japan, isn't it? Or has the X-Box started making inroads there?

Yeah but I don't think this is Japan's cup of tea.

No metrosexuals bareing their chests with frosted hair and such.

 

[CodeZombie]

The PS3 is the same over in Japan, isn't it? Or has the X-Box started making inroads there?

Well the Xbox is outselling the PS3 in Japan at the moment, only by a few thousand consoles a week however.

Check VGchartz.com

Hardware Sales, 11th Oct 2008
Plat Japan America Others Total
DS 33,199 154,977 222,803 410,979
Wii 21,647 197,245 145,459 364,351
PSP 20,614 54,865 82,404 157,883
X360 7,124 77,336 66,637 151,097
PS3 5,900 53,434 66,386 125,720

 

[Sicblades]

Hehe Nintendo is thrashing MS and Sony.

 

[Genma:TheDestroyer]

Hehe Nintendo is thrashing MS and Sony.

Well yeah, of course they are. Cheapest console, and they're being marketed almost exclusively towards the casual gaming sector. Of which there are craploads over in both Japan and America nowadays.

Japan as a whole, a lot of research is showing, is moving more towards casual 'pick up, play for ten minutes, then leave' games because they're just becoming so dang busy.

 

[Zumbs]

Is the font smaller, at least? And is it possible to see more stuff on pipboy in PC version?

Nope. The new interface screenshots in the PC magazines looked exactly the same as in the console ones, aside from the mouse cursor.

Damn! I had hoped that the flak they caught over the Oblivion PC interface had made an impression. Hopefully there will be a way to do some configuration ingame.

 

[Sicblades]

That and the games are much more fun. Nothing that you need to gripe over type of thing.